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THE ROMSDALS FIORD—A GRAND HOTEL. 181
most beautiful lakes I have ever seen; a splendid
subject, for a picture. Crossing the Romsdals Fiord, which
well deserves its fame for stern and rocky grandeur, I
found that Areblungsnaesset is not merely a single farm
station, but an actual wooden village of forty or fifty
houses, with a real hotel. I made my way to the
principal apartment of this hotel, which was furnished in
a most reckless manner, with real mahogany chairs,
French-polislied, big table, and little tables, and sofa
of the same, with horsehair cushions, and a carpet.
Feeling very much embarrassed, though nobody
else-was there, I was obliged to leave the room, to rub my
boots again upon the great door-mat of pine and juniper
twigs, comb my hair, and put on a collar and a
neckerchief; for, besides the furniture I before mentioned,
there was a chandelier and a looking-glass.
But I was soon relieved of my embarrassment; for
just upon re-entering the state-chamber, the hostess
came forward in a state of evident alarm, and showed
me upstairs to a comfortable but unpretentious
bedroom, constructed as usual of native deal, and furnished
with the same natural material.
Respecting the origin of all this mahogany,
horsehair, carpeting, and cliandeliering, I cannot give the
reader any certain information : whether the house was
accustomed to that sort of thing, or whether it had
been thrown into a state of abnormal magnificence on
account of the expected arrival of the Crown Prince,
who was then making a tour through Norway, and
would shortly arrive here. But I was quite convinced
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